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So recently, about a month ago, my computer started restarting with no warning whatsoever. I play Overwatch, and this was happening while queuing for competitive games, which, due to my computer restarting, would get me temporary suspensions and ranked points loss because I would stay in the queue despite my computer rebooting. So I did my research and tried to apply fixes and so far, none of the fixes have worked. In order:
- I tried downloading an updated version of BIOS for my ASUS Z97-A and updated it in the BIOS menu
- I uninstalled and reinstalled my graphic card's driver software in safe mode (AMD RADEON R9 380 Series)
- I replaced the thermal paste on my CPU and re-mounted my heatsink (Hyper 212EVO Cooler Master)
- I reinstalled my OS (Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, 6.1 Build 7601) and that only solved the problem for about 2 days.

I've been focusing on finals, but now that I'm done I wanna turn my full attention to this issue, because I've had 10 restarts alone tonight, and it's making my otherwise very good computer very frustrating to use. I gave the computer to microcenter to do hardware diagnostic tests and apparently all of it passes, and they re-installed the OS as well. Oh, and I also can't update Windows right now, but that's kind of a miscellaneous error. Here's all my specs. Help me out here, I'm dying.

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yeah this was an early warning of my psu dying - it can also exist in psus not being able to handle load... or gpu driver issues.

Most resets are bluescreens that just go so fast you cant read em / notice them so always check the Event Viewer for any potential details - a power failure isn't really a bsod the same way a graphics driver forced reset would be and it can help narrow shit down.